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Pursuits of happiness well-being in anthropological perspective
Title:
Pursuits of happiness well-being in anthropological perspective
Author:
Mathews, Gordon.
Publication Information:
New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Physical Description:
x, 278 p. : ill., maps.
Contents:
Why anthropology can ill afford to ignore well-being / Neil Thin -- Is a measure of cultural well-being possible or desirable? / Benjamin Nick Colby -- Well-being among the Matsigenka of the Peruvian Amazon : health, missions, oil, and "progress" / Carolina Izquierdo -- Embodied selves and social selves : aboriginal well-being in rural New South Wales, Australia / Daniela Heil -- The shifting landscape of Cree well-being / Naomi Adelson -- Well-being : lessons from India / Steve Derné -- Well-being, cultural pathology, and personal rejuvenation in a Chinese city, 1981-2005 / William Jankowiak -- Finding and keeping a purpose in life : well-being and Ikigai in Japan and elsewhere / Gordon Mathews -- Pleasure experienced : well-being and the Japanese bath / Scott Clark -- Selfscapes of well-being in a rural Indonesian village / Douglas Hollan -- Well-being and sustainability of daily routines : families with children with disabilities in the United States / Thomas S. Weisner.
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